Contents
Preface
The United States and Latin America in the 1980s: Change, Complexity, and Contending Perspectives / Kevin J. Middlebrook and Carlos Rico
Part I: The Political Economy of Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations
1. The United States, Latin America, and the World: The Changing International Context of U.S.-Latin American Relations / James R. Kurth
2. Debt, Diversification, and Dependency: Latin America's International Political Relations / Laurence Whitehead
3. Democratization, Endogenous Modernization, and Integration: Strategic Choices for Latin America and Economic Relations with the United States / Fernando Fajnzylber
Part II: Economic Issues in U.S.-Latin American Relations
4. External Financing in Latin America: Developments, Problems, and Options / Carlos Massad
5. External Debt and Capital Flows in Latin America / Richard O'Brien
6. Latin America's Export-Growth Imperative in the 1980s: Can the United States Help Achieve It? / Winston Fritsch
7. Growing Trade and Growing Conflict Between Latin America and the United States / John S. Odell
8. Comment: Debt and Trade in U.S.-Latin American Relations / Richard E. Feinberg
9. Comment: U.S.-Latin American Economic Relations: Perspectives for the 1980s / Roberto Bouzas
Part III: Political and Social Issues in U.S.-Latin American Relations
10. Can Democracy Be Exported? The Quest for Democracy in U.S.-Latin American Policy / Howard J. Wiarda
11. The United States, Latin America, Democracy: Variations on a Very Old Theme / Guillermo O'Donnell
12. The Human Rights Question in U.S.-Latin American Relations / Rafael Braun
13. Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy: Realism Versus Stereotypes / Margaret E. Crahan
14. Comment: Democracy, Human Rights, and the U.S. Role in Latin America / Giuseppe Di Palma
15. Comment: Constraints on Policies Regarding Human Rights and Democracy / Edelberto Torres-Rivas
16. Migration and U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 1980s / Michael S. Teitelbaum
17. Comment: The International Migration of Labor and Its Influence on U.S.-Latin American Relations / Gabriel Murillo Castano
Part IV: Security Issues in U.S.-Latin American Relations
18. Security: The Extracontinental Dimension / Cole Blasier
19. Interstate Conflict in Latin America / Gregory F. Treverton
20. Economics and Security: Contradictions in U.S.-Latin American Relations / Sergio Bitar
21. Comment: Security in the Western Hemisphere / Margaret Daley Hayes
22. Comment: The United States and Latin America: The Question of Security / Rafael Hernández
Notes on the Contributors